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What did you do with your knife today?

Did that EDC just take a ride around in your pocket or did it do something useful? Let's hear about it, What knife were you carrying and what did you do with it?

I'm probably picking the wrong day to start this conversation. Today my EDC (a Spartan Lite) has so far only cut open a plastic bag and cut a bread roll in half for my sandwich at lunch.

Now last Friday was a different story. My Victorinox Outrider cut down four saplings (3 Sassafras trees and one Oak tree ) Then my Rough Rider 844 hacked off extraneous branches and stripped off the bark. I was showing 12-14 year old boys how to select and make a proper hiking stick. Now all they need to do is wait a year while the saplings dry out!

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KnifeMakerPermalink Reply by Dave Taylor on July 17, 2013 at 18:24

Craig, I have a four footed furry companion here who absolutely owns the house and me with it.

Ain't it great? !!

Craig Henry said:

You and me both Dave! I'm an old softy when it comes to animals! LOL! Shoot, Sophie (The Princess) our mini Dachshund lives better than we do!

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Permalink Reply by Jan Carter on July 17, 2013 at 18:37

It just rode in my pocketbook today :(

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Permalink Reply by Tobias Gibson on August 5, 2013 at 16:02

Yesterday, my EDC was used to put in drywall screws at my daughter's new apartment. The #2 phillips on the knife fit the screws better than the cordless screw driver. Go figure! Also used the knife blade for cutting up cardboard boxes. Thank you Victorian for providing me a pocket sized tool box!

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Permalink Reply by Ken Spielvogel on August 5, 2013 at 17:20

Well Tobias, I have to be honest with that question. I put them in my pocket this morning, 2 Lockbacks, a RR and a Case. I went out to the farm, took a break, sat outside my cabin, put the knives on the arm of the chair, opened them, closed them - then opened them and closed them again, wiped them with my T-shirt and put them back in my pocket. That's about it for today, but I sure enjoyed them.

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Permalink Reply by Tobias Gibson on August 5, 2013 at 17:49

did you hear that, Ken? Listen closer. It's the knives in your pocket begging you to cut something! They don't care what it is, just cut something. A sheet of paper, a piece of cardboard, a plug of tobacco (if you indulge). Spread some butter on your morning toast. Stab your pork chop and gnaw on it like a wild savage. Your EDC knives are begging to be used! Do you realize that when you return it to the other knives in your collection and the other knives ask it "What did you do on your tour in the pocket?" And all your knives can say is "well he took me out of his pocket and he opened me up and closed me and put me back in his pocket." -- Can you imagine the embarrassment!

Okay, so maybe your knife can't say he rode into battle with the Third Army in WWII. However,I think a knife would rather say it shoveled sh*t in Louisiana than rode around all day in a lint filled pocket! Now get out there and use those knives!